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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Voice recognition: Snot purr feck jet

I have an XFinity phone line at the house which has a neat feature where it emails you the voice mail audio file when someone leaves a message. A few months ago, I found out that you can also have it transcribe the voice mail for you. That's turned out to be pretty entertaining, a real hit and miss on the transcriptions. Here are a few with the transcription in italics and what the person actually said right below it.

The caller left a voicemail, but due to the quality of the
message, the voicemail was unable to be transcribed. This may be a result of
too much background noise or the message was left in an unsupported language.

This is
what I get every time my wife, Mary, leaves me a message. Apparently her Texas
accent is considered an unsupported language. I can see that.

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Oh Randy it's it's D one thirteen. I got your the Excel
list. It's stuck(?) so on and I will reseed(?) accordingly.

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About Me

A certified public accountant for 30 years, Randy has his practice in the beautiful, seaside town of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
Active in many local organizations, Randy is the state representative for the Barnstable & Plymouth District and advocates for conservation of Cape Cod, public safety and independence from foreign energy sources.